Dawn Spacecraft Goes Into Orbit Around Asteroid Vesta
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft on Saturday became the first probe ever to enter orbit around an object in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Dawn…
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Atlantis and ISS See Auroras From Space
The STS-135 crew of space shuttle Atlantis and the Expedition 28 crew of the International Space Station have been treated with great views of the Aurora…
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NASA’s Dawn spacecraft will begin a prolonged encounter with the asteroid Vesta today (July 15), making the mission the first to enter orbit around a main-belt…
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This bit of info was sent to me by John Flannery who runs the South Dublin Astronomical Society (SDAS): “Check out this documentary about space science…
Read the articleHappy First Birthday, Neptune
Do you know what today is? It’s the day on which Neptune has finally completed one full orbit of the sun, since its discovery in 1846.…
Read the articleAAVSO Alert Notice 443: Long-Term Monitoring of Four AGN in Support of Ground-Based Spectroscopy
AAVSO Alert Notice 443 Long-term monitoring of four AGN in support of ground-based spectroscopy July 8, 2011 Dr. Misty Bentz of Georgia State University requests observations…
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Final Mission for the Space Shuttle
Space shuttle Commander Chris Ferguson and his three crewmates are on their way to the International Space Station after launching from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at…
Read the articleA Billion-Pixel Camera to Map the Milky Way
The largest digital camera ever built for a space mission has been painstakingly mosaicked together from 106 separate electronic detectors. The resulting “billion-pixel array†will serve…
Read the articleThe Hubble Space Telescope Makes Its One Millionth Science Observation
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope crossed another milestone in its space odyssey of exploration and discovery. On Monday, July 4, the Earth-orbiting observatory logged its one millionth…
Read the articleWhat Blew a Giant Bubble in the Sky Recently?
A bubble-like burst of light captured on two Hawaii telescopes last week likely has a terrestrial origin, observers say. What looks like a giant bubble rising…
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